Discount Announced and New Screenshots for Advanced Tactics: Gold!

Colorado Springs, CO, March 30 th, 2011– Matrix Games ( www.matrixgames.com) and VR Designs ( www.vrdesigns.nl) are proud to release a third pack of screenshots for their highly anticipated new strategy game, Advanced Tactics: Gold. In addition, Matrix Games is thrilled to announce that owners of Advanced Tactics: World War II will receive a $15 discount off the price of Advanced Tactics: Gold.

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David Heath, Director of Operations at Matrix Games, said“New gorgeous screenshots and an announcement of a sizeable discount? Sounds like a thrilling victory for wargamers! We’re very excited to see what the community does with the new features coming Advanced Tactics: Gold and the discount is all the more reason to see what the buzz is about!”

Building off of the enormous success of Advanced Tactics: World War II, the Gold edition gives players a more powerful game editor, much improved random game engine, many new features and abilities, and more. Advanced Tactics: Gold also comes with an updated manual and ever-changing and expanding wiki, a freshly revamped scenario bank, new graphics throughout the game, more troop types, as well as some new scenarios. VR Designs has also been hard at working listening to player feedback, so Advanced Tactics: Gold also comes with many incremental changes and improvements based on community feedback!

But perhaps the most exciting feature in Advanced Tactics: Gold is the near limitless potential for replayability. The strong mod community will be able to create engaging, rich scenarios with the vastly improved editor, and players looking to hop straight into the action can enjoy a much improved random game experience that comes with many new rules, actions, and gameplay mechanics.

Just a few of the many features include:

Versatile Engine– The Advanced Tactics: Gold engine is capable of modeling a wide variety of warfare from historical and modern battles to science fiction conflicts and warring fantasy realms!*> Improved Scenario Editor– The scenario editor is very powerful and allows the player to edit almost any aspect of the game in great detail.*> Expanded Random Game Mode– Many new features and game mechanics like more unit types, unit fuel, climates and seasons, and more.*> Many incremental improvements based on community feedback *> A whole lot more! *>

Get more information on Advanced Tactics: Gold from its official product page and don’t forget to check out the new screenshots.

ABOUT MATRIX GAMES

Matrix Games produces, markets and publishes historical wargames as well as other computer gaming products. Since 2000, Matrix Games has published over one hundred titles and several award-winning games, including Gary Grigsby’sWar in the Pacific, Close Combat: The Longest Day, Harpoon 3 Advanced Naval Warfare, John Tiller’s Campaign Series, Conquest of the Aegean, Crown of Glory: Emperor’s Edition, Battles In Normandy and Norm Koger’s The Operational Art of War III. Matrix Games is based in Staten Island, New York. For more information, visit the Matrix Games website at www.matrixgames.com.

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